PowerFleet (PWFL) Competitors

Seanergy Maritime (NASDAQ:SHIP) and PowerFleet (NASDAQ:PWFL) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.

Do analysts prefer SHIP or PWFL?

Seanergy Maritime currently has a consensus price target of $12.50, suggesting a potential upside of 34.26%. PowerFleet has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 100.50%. Given Seanergy Maritime's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PowerFleet is more favorable than Seanergy Maritime.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Seanergy Maritime	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
PowerFleet	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has more risk and volatility, SHIP or PWFL?

Seanergy Maritime has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PowerFleet has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in SHIP or PWFL?

29.4% of Seanergy Maritime shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.4% of PowerFleet shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Seanergy Maritime shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of PowerFleet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SHIP or PWFL?

Seanergy Maritime received 409 more outperform votes than PowerFleet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.70% of users gave Seanergy Maritime an outperform vote while only 39.82% of users gave PowerFleet an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Seanergy Maritime	Outperform Votes 454 73.70%	Underperform Votes 162 26.30%
PowerFleet	Outperform Votes 45 39.82%	Underperform Votes 68 60.18%

Is SHIP or PWFL more profitable?

Seanergy Maritime has a net margin of 1.68% compared to Seanergy Maritime's net margin of -3.86%. PowerFleet's return on equity of 2.70% beat Seanergy Maritime's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Seanergy Maritime	1.68%	2.70%	1.28%
PowerFleet	-3.86%	-6.08%	-2.36%

Does the media favor SHIP or PWFL?

In the previous week, Seanergy Maritime had 5 more articles in the media than PowerFleet. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Seanergy Maritime and 1 mentions for PowerFleet. Seanergy Maritime's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat PowerFleet's score of 0.83 indicating that PowerFleet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Seanergy Maritime	0 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
PowerFleet	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has better earnings & valuation, SHIP or PWFL?

Seanergy Maritime has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PowerFleet. PowerFleet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seanergy Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Seanergy Maritime	$110.23M	1.66	$2.28M	$0.07	133.00
PowerFleet	$133.59M	3.22	-$5.15M	-$0.31	-12.87

Summary

Seanergy Maritime beats PowerFleet on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.